That is not a logical necessity and in fact plenty of people feel for the family and do not have your anger and distaste towards them, which frankly I find baffling. Bringing up the memory of their son for light entertainment purposes is being done by the particicpation of MB in "Celebrity" BB. How painful that must be for them. The whole thing is disgusting.

There is lots of credible documented information about who else was present at the 'party' - both within the small print of the tabloids and reputable dailies. Funny that the others present James Futers, Simon Shaw, Jonathan Kenny, Jonathan Merritt or Kylie Merritt are not also being served papers!!!!! Obviously not enough mileage for the legal team to trawl through.

It could easily have been self afflicted considering how many drugs he had taken.

But we are not meant to talk about this here.

I just hope they don't ruin the final with some unsavoury scene-stealing.

I know but for them to try and serve papers like that makes me physically ill!

I hope they succeed. I hate him.

You're not his kind of people.

You won't be at the final I hope.

Or a few people out for self-publicity, manipulating bereaved parents and cashing in on a tragedy for their own purposes?

Sometimes ordinary working class people have to use the media to get justice - they don't have the money and influence to get it any other way. The Steven Lawrence case is a good example of a bereaved family using the tabloid press as a way of getting justice - sometimes you have to use the tool to hand no matter how distasteful it is. Please don't insult this grieving family by assuming they are tools of the media - they may well despise the tabloid press as much as you or I, but see no other way of getting answers. Who can say they wouldn't do the same in the circumstances? I'd go to the tabloids if I saw it as the only way of getting justice and I bet a lot of others would too.

As per forum rules I'm not going to discuss the case itself, however a lot of people are talking about the way Barrymore moved to New Zealand.

I'd just like to point out that it wasn't as if he packed his case and fled the day after the event happened.

Also, people who are under investigation by the police aren't allowed to leave the country no matter how famous they are so when he did move there was obviously no barrier to his doing so

Finally, New Zealand isn't the Costa del Crime or Rio. If I moved there and the police in the UK wanted me for something I'd be shipped back pretty sharpish

I'm not insulting the family in any way, please don't say I am since I have every sympathy with anyone who has had a death in their family.

I'm just pointing out that there are people jumping on this particular bandwagon for their own ends. These papers do not have to be served publicly with a posse of tabloid hacks en tow.

Publicity is a double-edged sword. It's a fine line between wanting justice and coming across as being vindictive and trying to do everything possible to destory another human being.

He should accept the papers when he is out and deal with any unresolved issues.
Trying to ignore it isn't going to make it go away..

Well the media are no doubt paying the piper and will call the tune - and they will want as sensational a story as possible as that gets more readers - in the same way that Endemol wants to be as controversial as possible to get in the viewers - I don't honestly see much to choose between them

You use the term 'destroy another human being' - yes a human being was destroyed - I'm not sure though that having to face up to his demons would destroy MB - sometimes you have to stop running away and face up to reality ...